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‘Demonic’ child screams and rampages throughout eight hour flight (video)
Metro U.K. ^ | 2/14/2018 | Helen Smith

Posted on 02/15/2018 8:53:38 AM PST by simpson96

A passenger on a flight from Germany to New York documented a child’s eight-hour-long tantrum.

The man began filming the three-year-old climbing on seats and screaming before the Lufthansa flight had even taken off.

The footage was uploaded to YouTube by Shane Townley with the title: ‘Demonic child screams and runs through an 8 hour flight.’

He writes: ‘Watch as this kid runs and screams throughout the entire flight while the mother does little to nothing to stop him. 3 years old on a 8 hour flight from Germany to Newark NJ. He never quits!’

The footage begins with the boy’s mother asking Delta staff for the WiFi to be switched on to distract the child with an iPad but the flight attendant replies that the WiFi is not available yet.

However, once the flight is underway and the WiFi has been enabled, the little boy’s tantrum continues.

At one point, the child sits on top of the seats, hitting the ceiling of the plane with his fists, while his mother asks him to sit and begs him to calm down.

A fellow passenger can be heard saying ‘that poor woman’ as the mother struggles to control her unruly toddler.

Half way through the flight, the little boy can be seen running up and down the aisle of the plane screaming and shouting.

Other passengers can be seen covering their ears to try and drown out the toddler.(snip)

As the flight continues, Shane gives hourly updates documenting the journey with captions on the screen.

He writes: ‘Hour 2. Demonic screams take over the plane.’

When the plane finally arrives in Newark Airport, passengers looked relieved to be disembarking the plane.

‘What a nightmare’ one passenger can be heard saying as she leaves the flight.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Travel
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; airlineflight; parenting; screamingchild
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To: Shethink13
I once offered a Benadryl to a mother on a flight and you would have thought I’d offered her poison for her child. ‘I WILL NOT MEDICATE MY CHILD UNNECESSARILY’. I said, ‘your child would be happier’. I was glared at for the rest of the coast to coast flight.

Young children can (and often do) have opposite reactions to medications called 'paradoxical reactions'. Benadryl can wire a kid up, and Sudafed can make them drowsy.
81 posted on 02/15/2018 12:00:18 PM PST by farming pharmer
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To: simpson96

To the extent that (s)he can control a given situation, the Captain blew it.


82 posted on 02/15/2018 12:07:06 PM PST by onedoug
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To: taxcontrol

Years back...I worked overseas and traveled back to the US once per year with my family. My son HATED flying and was very hard to control.

Prior to yet another flight, our family doctor suggested Benadryl. It did work like a charm. Kid is happier, parents are happier, other passengers are happier.


83 posted on 02/15/2018 12:12:48 PM PST by Washi (DGYHU)
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To: simpson96

should we lay bets on whether the kid’s American or German?


84 posted on 02/15/2018 12:15:11 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: bboop

The captain should never have taken off with an out of control demonically possessed brat on board. In the US, the captain can make that call and it’s not subject to questions.


85 posted on 02/15/2018 12:44:57 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Blue Jays

Autism is the Hyper Active Disorder of the day. As a scout leader in the 90s I had nearly a whole troop of dump ‘em off Ritalin doped up wild things. They ruined scouting for me and my son. We found we were both hanging on for one another and both hating it so we gave it up.

Writers write, talkers talk, doctors doctor etc. If nobody reads, listens or gets sick etc. there is nothing for them to do.


86 posted on 02/15/2018 1:06:17 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Shethink13

Of course! I am not in the habit of speaking to people that I don’t know and offering them medication. The kid had been screaming for over an hour at that point. The kid would have been happier if she had been able to relax and go to sleep, which is what Benadryl would have done for her.


87 posted on 02/15/2018 1:17:22 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: bigtoona

Listening to it, it didn’t sound like a painful physical ailment. If it was something, it was a mental issue of some kind or poor parenting.

Either way, the mother should have obtained a sedative for the child, IMO.


88 posted on 02/15/2018 1:49:42 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: simpson96

No demons. This is a normal child of liberal rearing.


89 posted on 02/15/2018 2:24:06 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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To: simpson96
"One gentleman invited Jeffery to go into the restroom and play with the blue water."

- Bill Cosby, Himself, 1983.

90 posted on 02/15/2018 2:44:23 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: robroys woman

Duct tape and toss him into the overhead luggage compartment.


91 posted on 02/15/2018 2:48:30 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: Jayster

You’d get get arrested for that today.


92 posted on 02/15/2018 2:51:37 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: rlmorel

Yup, nothin wrong with a sedative for a serious anxiety issue like that.


93 posted on 02/15/2018 4:29:08 PM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First!)
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To: simpson96

Silence is golden
Duct tape is silver


94 posted on 02/15/2018 8:04:08 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: trebb
can't help wondering if there is an inner ear problem causing pain that the mother ignores...nothing like change in pressure to make a sore ear turn excruciating.

From the article: "The man began filming the three-year-old climbing on seats and screaming before the Lufthansa flight had even taken off." Mom needs to restrain the kid or they both need to get off the plane.

95 posted on 02/16/2018 8:20:22 AM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Bonemaker

BINGO!!! I can’t stand the no-spanking crowd. We are talking about an attention getter not beating the kid into oblivion. Meanwhile CPS continues to go after low hanging fruit instead of prosecuting REAL child abuse cases (too dangerous and politically incorrect)


96 posted on 02/16/2018 8:26:07 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Bonemaker
I always like this one too for unruly children.


97 posted on 02/18/2018 4:24:21 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: AbolishCSEU

98 posted on 02/18/2018 4:37:39 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: originalbuckeye
Of course! I am not in the habit of speaking to people that I don’t know and offering them medication. The kid had been screaming for over an hour at that point. The kid would have been happier if she had been able to relax and go to sleep, which is what Benadryl would have done for her.

Sorry. I wasn’t judging, just asking. It’s something that I would love to do but I fear I wouldn’t have the guts.

99 posted on 02/26/2018 10:55:13 PM PST by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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